SubMaps

Submaps and You

SubMaps are an input map located within a node, which itself is located in your base input map. They are an effective way to make your input map easier to understand. You can use SubMaps either by placing control groups entirely in their own section of your map, or by connecting inputs to subgraphs which allows you to separate a complex section of your map. Let's start with the former.

Cleaning up the Mess

Below we have an example of a somewhat intricate map for a space sim.

This dual-stick (HOSAS) set up involves multiple axes, and hats, as well as numerous buttons. Visually, it can be hard to distinguish sections, or you may prefer to simply view the various control groups separately.

We'll start by placing the axes of both joysticks - and their filtered connection output to a virtual joystick - into a submap. We'll accomplish this by selecting all the nodes, right clicking to bring up our context menu, and choosing the Create Submap from Selection option (Ctrl+M on the keyboard).

Just like that we have an entire section of our input map contained to a single visible node which can be renamed like any other node. The contents of this submap node can be viewed by double clicking the node.

Connected Submaps

In our second use case, we'd like to organize the output and filter nodes in a submap, but leave the sources in our base map. The process is the same as our first example, and shows how intuitive Hitch Cmdr can be.

Inside this new connected submap node we'll find that Cmdr has neatly arranged the necessary nodes to connect our input sources to the filter and output nodes.